Opinions sought on cheap desktop PCB milling machine

**Robin Hewitt** · 08-06-2010

Originally Posted by ksangeelee

I'm just looking for a sanity-check.

Okay, sanity check... £1500 would buy you fifty 160x100mm DS, PTH, gold plated PCB's with 2 resist and legend masks, all different and guillotined to size from Olimex with no alignment problems to worry about.

Presume you want it to do something else or think it looks like fun :naughty:

Run out in the chuck is not a problem because it still cuts round but oversize. Simply lie to Mach about how big the tool is to compensate.

**ksangeelee** · 09-06-2010

Originally Posted by Robin Hewitt

Okay, sanity check... £1500 would buy you fifty 160x100mm DS, PTH, gold plated PCB's with 2 resist and legend masks, all different and guillotined to size from Olimex with no alignment problems to worry about.

Twenty-five boards when you add express shipping, but still respectable. Turnaround time is one reason that I chose not to use a fab-house - I'd need to allow at least one week per iteration, which I could otherwise do in a morning.

Presume you want it to do something else or think it looks like fun :naughty:

Both! I'll confess there is something a little 'Christmas Morning' about CNC machines.